[conspire] Fw: Sixty Years of Lafayette Radio

[Paul Zander]

A ham radio friend sent the following.  I think it might be of interest to at least some of the Cabal attendees. 

I remember visiting the Lafayette Radio store in downtown Cleveland when I was in high school.  Didn't have the budget for most of their merchandise, but it was fun to drool. 

Paul

--- On Wed, 4/3/13, John ...  wrote:



 
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We've seen what happened in the roughly half a century since 
we were high school geek kid hams .................. here's a look at the 
roughly half a century that was before we came on the scene.

 





 Sixty Years of Lafayette Radio


 
http://www.ohio.edu/people/postr/bapix/LafArt_60_3.htm
 
 
Can't help but notice the "copy cat" corporate culture 
and strategy they used. Lot of their stuff was Hallicrafters, Heath, WRL, look 
alikes. Their catalogs and marketing were similar to what I saw from my dad's 
antique auto connections like Wachawski in Chicago and the adds look a lot like 
Sears & Roebuck of that era. And the Jap import mentality that couples to 
what Allied, Radio Shack, etc did is easy to spot 
too.
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